Wednesday, 16 April 2014

The Rise and Fall of John and Judith

Milk and the PM

The National Party is slowly but surely moving into self-destruct mode
and it has been very predictable. The writing has been on the wall, the
self-grandiose behaviour, the bullsh*t behaviour and the plain and simple
evidence that has been available for the last few years is now obvious to all.
While the MSM has attempted to hide the ugly truth the facts have slipped into
the public domain. It is a fact that John Key came to power using very
underhand methods; he wanted a safe seat in Auckland and particularly in a
wealthy part of the city. First off he couldn’t find one, all the seats were
already held by National MPs and they were not willing to simply handover their
electorate to this upstart who had just arrived back in the country with a bag
full of cash. So Key built a small team of yes people, those who would do what
they were told without question, they then designed a strategy and implemented
it. An old National Party faithful who was lined up to contest the newly formed
electorate of Helensville was ruthlessly dumped and replaced by millionaire
John Key the money manipulator. This from an earlier blog:

“The TV 3
re-run of John Key [Smirky] telling the PSA conference that there was little
chance of asset sales under his watch…yeah right… and that, public servants
jobs were secure. He stated clearly in that TV clip “that selling state assets
was just plain dumb”.

Of course at that time he was trying to convince everyone that he was
Mr. Nice Guy and that he wasn’t the nasty rich back stabber who sunk the blade
deep between the shoulders of hard working National MP Brian Neeson so as to
get into parliament. Not for him the hard work of rising through the ranks.
This from Eugene Bingham: published in the NZ Herald.

How did Smirky get into
Parliament?

“Ambition had driven him [Key] to enter politics but having made the
decision to leave his corporate career; he faced the grind of earning a seat in
Parliament. Key could have pressed for a list spot. But he was shrewder than
that. In the 2002 election, the tide was definitely going out on National and
there were no guarantees anyone on the list would make it. And, besides, think
how it would have looked: a multi-millionaire swoops back into the country from
overseas and swans into Parliament. He was smarter than that. He was prepared
to fight. And what a fight he had.

The battle to win the National candidacy for the
Helensville electorate has gone down as one of the messiest scraps in the
party's history. In the process, long-serving MP Brian Neeson was cast aside,
loyal party members felt they were ridden over roughshod, and there were
accusations of rule-breaking.

What really happened when Key won the West?

By late 2001, Key had made his decision to run for
Parliament; it was just a question of how. He was still working at investment
bank Merrill Lynch, but had been talking to National officials about wanting to
have a serious tilt at entering Parliament in the 2002 elections. Key ruled out
taking a list position - a wise decision, given what happened: Allan Peachey
and Guy Salmon were among the high-profile list hopefuls who didn't make it in
2002 - and so turned to what seat he might contest. Beverley Revell, a
registered nurse who was the deputy regional chair and Neeson's former
electorate chairwoman, meet Key. The Helensville electorate had been created
through boundary changes to the adjacent Waitakere seat, where Neeson was MP.
The new seat was a more blue-ribbon patch. Revell had been Neeson's electorate
chairwoman, but the pair had fallen out several months earlier over internal
party matters. Revell and Key met at a cafe in an Orakei garden centre.

Revell… thought Key worked in advertising. It wasn't
until she said that he worked for Merrill Lynch that her husband told her how
much Key was probably worth.

Revell took control of running his campaign,
delaying confirmation of his candidacy until the last minute to keep Neeson
guessing.National Party president John
Slater invited Key to a traditional New Year's brunch held at his Pauanui
holiday home in the first days of 1999. Key arrived with a bottle of Stonyridge
Larose. (Recommended price $200)”.

So no hard toil, no fund raising, selling raffle
tickets, becoming a chairperson etc…for Smirky he preferred using wriggle
methods and stabbing a fellow party member and amble into parliament…once there
he only had to knock off Bill English the guy who led the Nats to their worst
ever defeat [22% of the vote]. So I can well imagine him playing Judas rather
than Jesus in the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, Jesus just wasn't that
sort of guy...he was the guy that tossed the money lenders out of the temple
can you imagine John Key doing that...no he would have invited them to buy the
temple!

But now Judith Collins ego and mouth and lies have
returned to haunt John Key, he knows that he knew about the Collins / Oravida
connection, in fact it’s possible that he encouraged it, based on his golf for a
56 thousand dollar donation from Oravida’s boss the chances must be strong that
he did know. It’s also possible that Judith Collins because of her very close connections
to Cameron Slater [Whale Oil] who is the son of ex Nats President John Slater
knows lots about Key’s rapid and unseemly rise up the ranks of the National
Party…and as we all know they don’t exactly elect their leaders.

Yet the PM has stated publicly that he chats with
Cameron Slater, a very nasty blogger who is being sued for comments on his blog
site…here are a few comments from Bomber s Daily Blog site:

“But it surely must be Judith herself who is now in danger of damaging
National beyond repair. Why Key is is refusing to move against Collins as her
conflict of interest seems to grow by the minute? Finding out that Oravida
lobbied National Party Ministers to help with their issues getting milk into
the country before Judith then has a dinner with Oravida and a ‘border official‘ is a coincidence beyond possibility.

The problem for Key is that he himself has deep relationships with
Oravida. Games of golf, tens of thousands in donations and Oravida using Key in
their advertising means any punishment handed out to Collins could impact
negatively on Key if Collins decides to reveal how deep Oravida’s influence has
within the National Party.

The irony that milk sales to China, which has kept the economy from
completely tanking, could end up being the possible ruin of National should be
enjoyed by everyone”.